Ringmauer
[ˈʁɪŋˌmaʊ̯ɐ]
The verdict
“Ringmauer” is uncommon German (frequency #98,996 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,996
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wehrmauer, welche den inneren Bereich einer Burg oder einer ähnlichen Befestigungsanlage ringförmig umschließt
Corpus desk
Index DE-ringmauer · Ringmauer · German
Ringmauer · rank #98,996 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,996
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH riechenden
Nearest frequency peer: riechenden (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Ringmauer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Remseck
Remseck
1,012 corpus weight
- Residenzsch…
Residenzschloss
1,011 corpus weight
- riechenden
riechenden
1,007 corpus weight
- Ringmauer
Ringmauer
1,005 corpus weight
- roast
roast
1,002 corpus weight
- Rolands
Rolands
1,001 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ringmauer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ringmauer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁɪŋˌmaʊ̯ɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ringmauer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ringmauer is uncommon German at frequency #98,996 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʁɪŋˌmaʊ̯ɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wehrmauer, welche den inneren Bereich einer Burg oder einer ähnlichen Befestigungsanlage ringförmig umschließt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ringmauer, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Ringmauer, spelled R-I-N-G-M-A-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Wehrmauer, welche den inneren Bereich einer Burg oder einer ähnlichen Befestigungsanlage ringförmig umschließt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ringmauer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Ringmauer schützte vor einem weiteren Vordringen der Eindringlinge.
„Wenn gleich minder großartig als die Ringmauer, zieht dennoch der nordwärts und ganz nahe, auf kahler Anhöhe hervorragende, mächtige Teufels-Stein die Aufmerksamkeit kräftiger auf sich hin.“
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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